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Similarly, you shall be paid a salary as
Pantaloon. After those expenses are cleared up, as well as all the
other salaries and disbursements, the residue is the profit to be
divided equally between us."
It was not, as you can imagine, a proposal that M. Binet would
swallow at a draught. He began with a point-blank refusal to
consider it.
"In that case, my friend," said Scaramouche, "we part company at
once. To-morrow I shall bid you a reluctant farewell."
Binet fell to raging. He spoke of ingratitude in feeling terms; he
even permitted himself another sly allusion to that little jest of
his concerning the police, which he had promised never again to
mention.
"As to that, you may do as you please. Play the informer, by all
means. But consider that you will just as definitely be deprived
of my services, and that without me you are nothing - as you were
before I joined your company."
M. Binet did not care what the consequences might be. A fig for
the consequences! He would teach this impudent young country
attorney that M.


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